\Bar"ba*rize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Barbarized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Barbarizing}.]
1. To become barbarous.
         The Roman empire was barbarizing rapidly from the
         time of Trajan.                       --De Quincey.
2. To adopt a foreign or barbarous mode of speech.
         The ill habit . . . of wretched barbarizing against
         the Latin and Greek idiom, with their untutored
         Anglicisms.                           --Milton.

\Bar"ba*rize\, v. t. [Cf. F. barbariser, LL.
barbarizare.]
To make barbarous.
      The hideous changes which have barbarized France.
                                               --Burke.